Forestry thinning in commercial conifer plantations has little effect on bird species richness and breeding abundance

Forestry thinning in commercial conifer plantations has little effect on bird species richness and breeding abundance

Bird Study, 2009

Citation

Calladine, J., Humphreys, E.M., Strachan, F. & Jardine, D.C. 2009. Forestry thinning in commercial conifer plantations has little effect on bird species richness and breeding abundance. Bird Study 56: 141. doi:10.1080/00063650802681698

Abstract

Capsule: Levels of thinning practised in upland Scotland are insufficient to permit the development of ground vegetation and shrub layers that might enhance some breeding bird populations.

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John Calladine